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Book Review: The Ajax Dilemma: Justice, Fairness and Rewards , written by Paul Woodruff

Book Review: The Ajax Dilemma: Justice, Fairness and Rewards , written by Paul Woodruff (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 251 pp. isbn 978–0-19-976861-5 (hbk). £12.99. In today’s workplace complaints about salaries and bonuses often have more to do with honor than they do with financial need (p. 3). Many of those facing the consequences of the recent global financial crisis—actual reduction in salaries, reductions in pension, longer working hours and increasing social inequalities—might be a bit surprised by the claim above which appears at the beginning of this book. It might seem to them that ‘honor’ is something rather far from their thoughts and that financial need is indeed rather more to the point. They may well argue that the increasing social inequalities are unfair and a sign of an increasingly unjust society. The arguments at the heart of this book could then be taken as a challenge to such a view. Inequalities may be unfair, argues Woodruff (though not necessarily so), but they are not unjust since ‘[f]airness is the double of justice; that is it looks like justice, but it isn’t the same’ (p. 121). The stakes in this argument are high, however, since justice is, on this account, essential to the health of communities and to the individual members http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Moral Philosophy Brill

Book Review: The Ajax Dilemma: Justice, Fairness and Rewards , written by Paul Woodruff

Marshall, Sandra
Journal of Moral Philosophy , Volume 11 (6): 792 – Nov 10, 2014
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Brill
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© 2014 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews
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1740-4681
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1745-5243
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10.1163/17455243-01106008
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(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 251 pp. isbn 978–0-19-976861-5 (hbk). £12.99. In today’s workplace complaints about salaries and bonuses often have more to do with honor than they do with financial need (p. 3). Many of those facing the consequences of the recent global financial crisis—actual reduction in salaries, reductions in pension, longer working hours and increasing social inequalities—might be a bit surprised by the claim above which appears at the beginning of this book. It might seem to them that ‘honor’ is something rather far from their thoughts and that financial need is indeed rather more to the point. They may well argue that the increasing social inequalities are unfair and a sign of an increasingly unjust society. The arguments at the heart of this book could then be taken as a challenge to such a view. Inequalities may be unfair, argues Woodruff (though not necessarily so), but they are not unjust since ‘[f]airness is the double of justice; that is it looks like justice, but it isn’t the same’ (p. 121). The stakes in this argument are high, however, since justice is, on this account, essential to the health of communities and to the individual members

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Published: Nov 10, 2014

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